Preface: A Hair Trigger Nation? -- Introduction: Listening to Talk Radio -- Evil and Identity -- Katrina and the Color of Good and Evil -- From the Model T to the Hummer: The Economics and Aesthetics of the American Automobile -- The Immigrants are Coming! The Immigrants are Coming! -- Capitalism's Bumpy Ride: Where To From Here? -- National Security and Apocalypse -- Conclusion: Addressing a World of Rhizomatic Crises
Summary
American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and quality of life, this book suggests alternative policy agendas, religious, and philosophical discourses, cultural framing and modes of daily living in an effort to defuse what it takes to be a divisive politics that paradoxically increases the very risks it highlights
